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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1927
Page
6
Keedysville observer J A Miller reports Saturday 66 and Sunday 69 degree highs set new August lows, breaking 23 year records. The unusual cloud cover and rainfall kept temperatures unusually cool, with showers early week and again later, then a cool to warm trend as August proceeds.
Willian McHenry announced promising prospects for better harness racing at the Hagerstown fair after weeks on grand circuit tracks seeking racers. He noted banner season with many fine horses in northern Pennsylvania and predicted top heavy draughts for the October exhibition.
Thousands of farmers and families filled Conomac Park Williamsport for the eleventh annual picnic hosted by the Washington County Farm Bureau and the Rural Federation of Women's Clubs. Speakers including Rev FL Dietzel and J Forney Young highlighted farming as leadership training while contests and entertainment capped a day noted for safety and hospitality.
More than 700 attendees witnessed the dedication of Rest Haven Cemetery on the Middleburg pike with R. Paul Smith presiding. The program included opening prayer, orchestra, chorus, historical review, addresses on burial sanctity, vocal solos, dedicatory address by F Berry Plummer, and closing prayer. The cemetery is perpetually maintained and praised as one of the valley’s most beautiful.
In Rohrersville and surrounding areas Mrs Charles Holder and daughter Phyllis Geraldine of Gapland visited Ira Rice. Miss Molly Young of Hagerstown stayed with Rev and Mrs Young. Glendora and Esther Winfield vacationed with Aunt Mary Stover in Shippensburg PA. numerous local guests gathered at homes of Holder, Rice, Dagenhart, and Poffenberger, with visits extending to Bakersville Weverton Brunswick and Sharpsburg.
Listings reveal a Monday August 29 schedule across networks featuring WEAF Opera Concert and Roxy and His Gang, with WJZ WDWM WPG and others presenting bands, dance orchestras, and studio programs. Notable entries include Asbury Park Pryor Band in Gotham and Baltimore WBAL ensembles, plus various regional station timetables.
Sunday gatherings in Hagerstown and Washington D C included Mr and Mrs John Poffenberg er and families visiting Upper Strasburg Pa and Ira Sprecher hosting a large pound party for their daughter Clara. Visitors from Philadelphia York and Hagerstown called on the Warners. Bertha Sprecher visits her daughter Mrs Albert Charlton near Kemps for several days.
Walnut Point on August 25 reports Mr. and Mrs. G B Kendall and Mrs Roy Sword with Mr Paul Cook taking a automobile trip to Akron and Detroit for weeks with relatives. Mrs M M Warner has been ill but improved. Arthur Sprecher and family and Vincent Sprecher visited. Ada Daugherty from Halfway spent Sunday with relatives Ernest Daugherty and Clarence Trumpower. M M Warner also noted later in the day.
Potomac Edison Company located at 55 East Washington Street appears in the directory listing format for utility providers. The item records the street address and corporate name for customer reference.
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